詞彙精選：heighten的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

v.

（使）變高；（使）加強 [I,T]

例句：

We should heighten the competitiveness of products.

我們要增強產品的競爭能力。

例句：

Use eye shadow to heighten your eyes.

使用眼影可以增大你的眼睛。

二、詞義辨析：

enhance,heighten,intensify,aggravate

這些動詞均有“加強，增強”之意。enhance側重指增加價值，魅力或聲望等使人或物具有超乎尋常的吸引力。 heighten通常指使某物的某種性質變得不同於一般的顯著或突出。intensify指深化或強化某事或某物，尤指其特別之處。aggravate指加劇令人不快或困難的形勢。

三、參考例句：

We should heighten the competitiveness of products.

我們要增強產品的競爭能力。

Use eye shadow to heighten your eyes.

使用眼影可以增大你的眼睛。

It will heighten fears over inflation, which remains stubbornly high.

這還會加劇民衆對居高不下的通脹率的擔憂。

It's the music to heighten the dramatic effect.

那是用於提高戲劇效果的配樂。

If you want to succeed, you must heighten your confidence.

如果你想成功，就必須增強信心。

The financial management must be strengthened so as to heighten economic profits.

要提高經濟效益，必須加強財務管理。

Some are still making trouble and we must heighten our vigilance.

一部分人還在搗亂，必須對他們提高警惕。

Some crops could be planted in preference to others to heighten the food supply.

有些莊稼可以優先種植以增加糧食供應量｡

The news is likely to heighten unease in EU capitals over the Kremlin's tightening grip on energy reserves.

克里姆林宮加強對能源儲備控制的消息可能會加劇歐洲各國的不安。

Some crops are relatively high yielders and could be planted in preference to others to heighten the food supply.

有些莊稼是相對高產的作物，優先種植會增加糧食供應量。